Send or share paid Android Apps with your family legally

by Kushal Azza · December 4, 2015

Do you have any paid Android app and want to share it with the family member without getting a legal notice? Learn how did I share paid Android Apps.

For my brother Nikhil, I got new OnePlus X and he wanted to have few apps from Android store. Those apps were paid premium apps. And I already had bought those Android Apps on my OnePlus One. (Yes, we both own a OnePlus manufactured devices and its great). So instead of buying the same apps again, I thought of sharing those paid apps with him.

How did I share paid Android Apps? is it legal?

Yes, it is absolutely legal to share paid apps within own family members with the same billing address. You can share with you parents, siblings, spouse and even children. But it is illegal to share with any person outside your family like friends, neighbors, working colleague, etc.

Now let me tell you how I shared the paid apps. As I already bought apps using Google Wallet hence, these purchased apps are assigned with my Google Account. Now, wherever I access Google Play store, I can see those apps in my app list.